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Corrosion Control News

By: Darren Parker29th May 2009
The South African Institute of Tribology (SAIT) has acquired the necessary funding to initiate a study of the costs associated with not conforming to leading practice principles in the field of tribology, in the country. →

By: Darren Parker29th May 2009
The attraction, retention and development of necessary skills and knowledge within the field of corrosion is a significant challenge for the South African corrosion control industry, says Corrosion Institute of Southern Africa (CorrISA) president Deon Slabbert. →

By: Jacqueline Holman30th May 2008
Energy supply shortages in South Africa and internationally have resulted in an increased focus on tribology, South African Institute of Tribology’s (SAIT’s) president Patrick Swan tells Engineering News. →

By: Jacqueline Holman30th May 2008
Value-add division of Robor, Pipe Systems, supplies piping solutions, in which corrosion protection plays a large part, to projects in the mining, water reticulation, gas and petrochemical industries. →

By: Jacqueline Holman30th May 2008
The direct cost of corrosion in South Africa equates to about R150-billion a year, Corrosion Institute of Southern Africa’s (CorrISA’s) president, Deon Slabbert, told industry participants at the second Annual Corrosion Control Conference in April. →

30th May 2008
Performance levels of waterborne maintenance coatings are now equal to or even better than the capabilities of solvent-borne coatings, resulting from advances in polymer design and formulation, says chemical specialist Rohm and Haas. →

By: Guy Copans1st June 2007
Significant time and money could be saved in the mechanical and
chemical cleaning, surface preparation and re-coating of
underground water reticulation pipe lines in South Africa, through
the use of on-site Pipe Pigging technology, says Corrosion
Engineering Specialists, Corrocoat South Africa�s... →

21st April 2006
FloSolve’s Western Cape distributor, Calberg Lubrication, has
installed a Vogel GSE multi-outlet driven pump for a centralised
lubrication system on a Komatsu WA800 front-end loader for Namakwa
Sands on the West Coast. →

By: Jade Davenport15th July 2005
The science of extreme low-temperature engineering in the form of
US-based Cryogenics International’s patented controlled deep
cryogenic treatment systems and processes to improve the
metallurgical and structural properties of metals, plastics and
other materials is now available in South... →

By: Jade Davenport3rd June 2005
Leading South African corrosion-engineering company Didier
Corrosion Engineering (DCE) has had a complicated history, which
includes many name changes, mergers and acquisitions over the past
37 years. →

By: Jade Davenport3rd June 2005
The majority of corrosion-protection coatings that are available on
the South African market are standard epoxy-based coatings, which
have always been susceptible to impact and abrasion damage. →

3rd June 2005
Distributor and applicator of microfilm high-temperature ceramic
coatings Powerkote has recently introduced a microfilm corrosion
and chemical-resistant coating for domestic and industrial
elements, which is capable of withstanding thermal shock. →

3rd June 2005
In developing countries where financial resources are limited, it
is important to create infrastructure using material that is
inherently corrosion resistant and thus suitable for reducing the
lifecycle costs associated with maintenance. →

3rd June 2005
Wear is inevitable in the use of comminution equipment and a risk
factor, which IMS Engineering is seeking to reduce by applying the
science of tribology during the development of processing solutions
for its customers. →

3rd June 2005
In developing countries where financial resources are limited, it
is important to create infrastructure using material that is
inherently corrosion resistant and thus suitable for reducing the
lifecycle costs associated with maintenance. →

3rd June 2005
Supplier and manufacturer of products for the steel, concrete,
masonry and composite industry, StonCor Africa has recently played
an integral role in the extensive refurbishment of an ice plant in
Botswana. →

By: Jade Davenport3rd June 2005
Durban-based Epure Coatings has been specialising in
rust-prevention in the automotive industry for the past seven years
and has recently introduced a new rust-protection system into the
South African market called CarWell Rust Protection System. →

11th February 2005
Lubrication-solutions provider FloSolve was awarded a global tender
to fit Wiggins service systems on to a fleet of 42 CAT earthmoving
machines for Gold Fields’s Tarkwa mine, in Ghana. →

By: Nicola Mawson11th February 2005
Despite the current worldwide push to operate companies as
environmentally-friendly as possible, Rothenberger South Africa GM
Michael Fellendorf says that the company’s water-based
threading lubricant is not receiving the reception that an
environmental push suggest its should. →

By: Nicola Mawson11th February 2005
In the middle of last year, ExxonMobil and Engen South Africa
announced that Engen would be officially distributing Mobil
lubricants in many sub-Saharan African countries. →